Economics and Investing:

Biggest Silver Supply Losers For 2015 o o o Have you seen the price of groceries lately? The Rapidly Rising Cost Of Living Is Absolutely Killing The Middle Class In America o o o Items from Professor Preponomics: U.S. National Debt is Actually $65T. “T” as in TRILLION. (Breitbart) Hint: Former U.S. Comptroller says Americans have lost touch with the reality of their spending. U.S. Debt: It’s a BIG PROBLEM (Zero Hedge) ADP Report Shows Latest Signs of Cooling Job Market (U.S. News and World Report) Commentary: There are curious conflicts among the jobs reports. A classic case of spin. …


Odds ‘n Sods:

SurvivalBlog reader L.N. notified us of the upcoming movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. It’s in post production now, scheduled for release in January. o o o Ryan (over at Total Survivalist) recommended a great 4-minute video primer by Kyle Lamb on practical concealed carry options. o o o Worried about access to doctors after TSHTF? It may not matter as much as you have been led to believe! Annual Physicals May Do More Harm Than Good Link sent in by D.S. o o o Reader T.Z. informed us of a new book about to be published. Sounds …



Notes for Wednesday – November 11, 2015

November 11th is of course Veteran’s Day. If you value you freedom, then thank a veteran. It is also the birthday of General George S. Patton, Jr. (born 1885, died December 21, 1945). And this is the birthday of Hugh Everett (born 1930, died July 19, 1982), the American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his “relative state” formulation. November 11th also marks Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence (UDI), in 1965. Remember Rhodesia. o o o Today, we present another entry for Round 61 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The nearly …


Letter: Another Note on Infant Nutrition

Hugh, We raised six healthy kids on a diet best described as “locally grown, in harmony with the seasons”. Unless you’ve got the food stockpile of the century, you too will soon be eating primarily “locally grown, in harmony with the seasons” when those refrigerated rail cars quit rolling and are looted out. We live in the grain belt, and whole grains in one form or another play a major role in our diet as they have for much of mankind’s history. I’m not talking about white bread, Doritos, or noodles here but the “Staff of Life” freshly milled whole …


Economics and Investing:

Silly Season and Silly Fiscal Policy o o o Social Security Administration Spending Hit Record in FY2015; $6,345 For Every American With a Job – Sent in by G.G. o o o Items from Mr. Econocobas: Millennials Ditch Big Banks and Go Local With Their Money – Personally, I have done the same thing howbeit for a different reason, but I don’t find this shocking at all being on the front end of the millennial generation. Get your money out of the big banks and get local, credit union or otherwise. More Misery Ahead for Greeks as Economy Set to …


Readers’ Recommendations of the Week:

Reader S.B. suggested The Uglies This is a book series that would be of interest to both young and old survival blog readers. They are an easy read, originally targeted towards teens and young adults. It’s a book about ultimate government control and the fight by a small group of young people to escape it. The government raises your children. Once you have your mandatory surgery, everyone is the same (socialist utopia). You are assigned a job. No money is used. You are assigned your lifestyle based on popularity points (think youtube and facebook). You are not allowed to leave …


Odds ‘n Sods:

Ready Made Resources is having a Veterans Day sale. They are adding two boxes of Infrared Chemical Lights (a $70 value) and a Surface Trip flare for those Chemical Lights (a $25 value) to either the PVS-14 3rd Gen+ or the PVS-14 2nd Gen+ Night Vision packages. All standard accessories come with the units along with a 10 year warranty. They also have a one week return policy if you are not 100% satisfied. Thank you, Veterans, for your service. o o o This is a very uncomfortable thought. Sniper Attack on California Electrical Grid an Inside Job? (CNN) – …



Notes for Tuesday – November 10, 2015

November 10th is remembered in the United States as the “birthday” of the U.S. Marine Corps. Coincidentally, the 10th is also the birthday of the late Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, born in 1919, died December 23, 2013. He didn’t design a lot of different guns, but one of his few designs was the prototype for what turned out to be the world’s most widely produced assault rifles. Once an iconic symbol of international communism, the AK’s curved magazine profile has in more recent years become just a symbol of citizens being well-armed. o o o Today, we present another entry for …


Two Letters Re: Love Thy Neighbor…Trust No One

HJL: I’ve got the same issue on my one acre in a small town in Georgia. Great soil but with neighbors that think it is theirs. In my case a 45-foot section of board fence drew a line. I continue to fence the corners and plant hedge material when nephew labor is available. Periodic extra tall posts seem decorative now but will make a splendid support for barbed wire. My intent is to make it possible to fence it quickly from stored supplies should misfortune befall us. I hesitate to go ahead and install the fence because the location, while …


News From The American Redoubt:

Here is a follow-up to a sketchy item from last week’s column: Idaho rancher’s wife: ‘I saw them murder my husband’ o o o Casper, Wyoming: Enforcing The New Smoking Law o o o Eye on Boise: Idaho tax changes in the works o o o SurvivalBlog reader C.T. from Idaho wrote in: Fox News reported that Italy is under siege & political revolt over the Italian’s Mafias long held control over Italian politics and how the Mafia and their politicians are getting filthy rich off of the Social Welfare programs they’ve created by flooding Italy with illegal aliens. Exact …


Economics and Investing:

SurvivalBlog reader GJM writes in: This is one example of what my “hegemony warnings” have been about. Like Brazil back in ’90s, it’s only one domino; but unlike anything else so far, it’s a game-changing big one. Ultimately, America either goes to war to maintain a slowly-degrading status quo…or accelerates to fast-fall… War with China means war with Russia means war with Iran means… Fast-fall has the likelihood of being very fast and falling very far. No military retiree would get a tiny shard of his expected retirement; no police officer will ever get a pension—or much of a paycheck, …


Odds ‘n Sods:

On Both Sides Of The Atlantic: Coming Soon To The Politically-Vulnerable Near You. Puppetmasters don’t move an underground irregular military into your community out of “compassion”, any more than they agitate low-achievement and frustrated isolates and enclaves already among you into becoming the pawns of irregular militaries (e.g.: The “New” Black Panthers) of the future, out of “compassion”. Acid or base is not added to a previously-stable compound out of empathy for the acid or base; it’s added to move pH and destabilize the compound, so that it can be altered–an old thing destroyed, a new thing made of its …